- Professor: Klaus Peter Kristian Hilbert
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- Professor: Luciana Murari
- Professor: Charles Monteiro
- Professor: Edison Huttner
- Professor: Luciana Murari
- Professor: Charles Monteiro
- Professor: Edison Huttner
The Amazon: Population, Environment and History
Course Description: This “seminar”-style class offers a transdisciplinary study of the Amazon region, using a variety of disciplines and approaches, such as history, archaeology, anthropology, geography and biology. It explores the dynamic interrelationships between the many population groups and outside actors within the Amazonian ecological environment in constant transformation.
Justification: The “Amazon Hileia”, covering approximately seven million square kilometers, is the largest tropical region in the world. The 6,750 kilometers long Amazon River is responsible for approximately a fifth of the total water that annually flows into the world's oceans. The River basin plays a central role in almost every major international environmental issue. Two-thirds of the Amazon basin is located in Brazil, elevating the nation to first in terms of extant biodiversity. The Amazon is home to a fifth of all species of mammals, fish, birds and trees in the world. Populated since the end of the last Ice Age (12,000 A.P.), today it is home to about 170 distinct indigenous nations and is also home to an additional 357 Afro-descendent communities. Therefore, in addition to unsurpassed biological and biochemical diversity, it also has an extraordinary ethnic-cultural diversity within its expansive bounds.
Methodology: The class will be composed of dynamic group discussions held in the format of seminars. These discussions will be guided by a selection of themes and texts that must be read in advance, and their interpretations should be expounded upon and debated by the students. Each student will be responsible for guiding the discussion and presenting the underlying information and themes of one or more texts on a scheduled sequence to be determined at the introductory class.
- Professor: Klaus Peter Kristian Hilbert
- Professor: Luciana Murari
I. PROPOSTA: O seminário visa o estudo transdisciplinar de elaborações teóricas fundamentais nos campos da materialidade, representação, da cultura visual e da etnicidade, por meio da análise desses conceitos e de seus correlatos, acompanhada de revisão crítica da historiografia de referência para a compreensão das estratégias metodológicas e dos paradigmas interpretativos mobilizados para delimitação e tratamento de seus objetos.
- Professor: Klaus Peter Kristian Hilbert